Archives for
September 2009

If you've been interested in buying the Palm Pre, now might be the time to take the plunge. Both Wal-Mart and Amazon.com are offering the phone for much less than Sprint's after-rebate price. At Amazon, you can score the Palm Pre for $99.99 with a tw...

With so many athletes taking to Twitter and other social media tools, we’ve been closely monitoring how the professional sports leagues have been responding. The NFL recently reinforced its reputation as the “No Fun League” by banning all social medi...

UK Apple lovers -- you just got another carrier option for your iPhone. Orange UK will be bringing the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS to Orange UK customers later this year. Orange will be selling the phone in all Orange shops, the Orange website, and ...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. One of the best uses of social media for business is being able to monitor...

We've long commented on the parallels between Foursquare and Twitter; the two companies have a lot in common and we believe that Foursquare has the potential to disrupt the social media space in the same way Twitter did several years back. In our pos...

It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Is your event not on this list? Contact us at ...

Despite hordes of competition, Newegg has emerged as a major player in online electronics retailing. Founded in 2001, the company is now doing more than $2 billion per year in sales, and according to Reuters, now plans to raise $175 million in an upc...

Adrian Chan is a Sr Fellow with SNCR.org and is a social interaction design consultant and strategist. You can follow him on Twitter @gravity7 and at his blog: gravity7.com/blog/media If you're reading this, then social media is a part of your life, ...

The NFL may be the No Fun League when it comes to tweeting before, during, and after games, but the Texas Tech college football program just took Twitter restrictions up a notch. Following a few suspect tweets by team members, Coach Mike Leach has an...

Nielsen, which previously concluded that social networking is more popular than email, recently set out to prove that social media decreases email use. After analyzing four distinct online population groups and their email consumption rates over a ye...

Google announced some nifty updates to Google Docs today, focused on students as they get back to their books and into the classroom. The document collaboration tool now supports equation notation, superscript, subscript, and language translations. F...

Politics and social media can sometimes be an explosive combination. But now, a poll posted to Facebook through a third-party application has gone so far as to draw the attention of the US Secret Service. The poll, which has since been pulled, asked ...

comScore has just released their August video measurement data, and it's been another enormous month for video viewing across Google sites. With YouTube accounting for 99% of its video views, Google was able to rake in more than 10 billion video view...

One of the most popular Twitter clients for the iPhone is Tweetie. Winner of an Apple Design Award, the iPhone app (and the Mac OS X app) has defined the Twitter experience for many users. Today, Tweetie's developer, Loren Brichter announced Tweetie ...

Sure, we've already seen the Hulufication of YouTube, but until today the most exciting content came from deals with CNN, Cartoon Network, and the WB. Compare that against Hulu's powerhouse prime-time television show line-up, and you've got a bit of ...

With millions of Google searches performed every day, it makes sense that what people are searching for can be a good indicator of what has captured the interest of the U.S. and the world. That's exactly what Google Trends does: it tells you what's c...

Howdy, music fans! It's yet another Free Music Monday for you. Previous listeners know that we're celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter by giving you some free tunes to download or stream. Each week we'll offer up 10 MP3s, single streams,...

Is MySpace becoming the hot new way to release entertainment exclusives? If the past few weeks are any indication, the answer might just be yes. Earlier this month, the site debuted the trailer for the Michael Jackson documentary - This Is It - and l...

We've been following the persistent rumors of an Apple Tablet for some time now and have written on why we think it's most certainly coming at some point in the not-too-distant future. Today there's a small nugget of fuel to add to the Tablet fire, w...

Update: The CNN iPhone App is now in the app store. Download it here . - A little over a month ago, we reviewed the NPR News iPhone App. We raved about its radio integration and personalization options, so much that we definitively declared that "NPR...

We've been covering the story of a bank's email screw-up and the highly controversial judge's ruling that ordered Google to suspend the Gmail account of the innocent recipient of 1,300 bank customers' personal information. Apparently Rocky Mountain B...

Last week, we decided that it wasn't enough to just wonder which web browser was better; we had to settle the matter in a battle for the ages. So we pitted Mozilla Firefox against Google Chrome, gave them some ammunition, and left it up to you to dec...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Palm Pre users rejoice: a new version of webOS, 1.2.0, is now available. It's about 79 megabytes heavy, and it brings several new important features, one of them being support for paid app purchases from the App Catalog. Other new features include ba...

Yesterday, news broke that O2's exclusivity contract for the iPhone in the UK has ended, and Orange UK was the first to capitalize on it, promising to bring the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS to their customers later this year. Now, Vodafone has done t...

You know how bands often tend to put more importance on their MySpace page than on their dot com website? Well, the New England Patriots are now doing something similar on Facebook. They've partnered with Buddy Media to create a new section of their ...

Last week, we reported that YouTube and Warner Music had settled their differences and were going to bring Warner Music artists and content back to YouTube. YouTube and Warner, however, had made no announcement. Now it's official. In an early morning...

Those Apple Tablet rumors just keep coming. Apple sure is getting a lot of publicity for a product that hasn't even been officially acknowledged (but that virtually everyone believes is indeed a reality). The idea of an enlarged iPhone-type of device...

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog. There's no question that social media has brought us a lot closer by allowing anyone to communicate in virtual settings with pe...

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